New train to reach to China in two days

The 5,070-mile trip usually takes a week but the Chinese are planning new locomotives to slash travel times.[>

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Travellers would join the “Super Orient Express” at King’s Cross before nipping through the Channel Tunnel.[>

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China already has its own high-speed railway network and wants to extend it to up to 17 countries.[>

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It is already spending an eye-watering £480billion to build an extra 19,000 miles of railway in the next five years. Lines could connect Kunming, in southern China, with Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia.[>

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Wang Mengshu, from China’s Academy of Engineering, said the lines could be built in 10 years.[>